Learn how to improve your Java coding skills using unit testing. Despite it's name, unit testing is really a coding technique, not a testing technique. Unit testing is done by programmers, for programmers. It's primarily for our benefit: we get improved confidence in our code, better ability to make deadlines, less time spent in the debugger, and less time beating on the code to make it work correctly. This book shows how to write tests, but more importantly, it goes where other books fear to tread and gives you concrete advice and examples of what to test--the common things that go wrong in all of our programs. Discover the tricky hiding places where bugs breed, and how to catch them using the freely available JUnit framework. It's easy to learn how to think of all the things in your code that are likely to break. We'll show you how with helpful mnemonics, summarized in a handy tip sheet (also available from our www.pragmaticprogrammer.com website) to help you remember all this stuff. With this book you will:

Write better code, and take less time to write it

Discover the tricky places where bugs breed

Learn how to think of all the things that could go wrong

Test individual pieces of code without having to include the whole project

Test effectively with the whole team We'll also cover how to use Mock Objects for testing, how to write high quality test code, and how to use unit testing to improve your design skills. We'll show you frequent "gotchas"--along with the fixes--to save you time when problems come up. We'll show you how with helpful mnemonics, summarized in a handy tip sheet (also available from our www.pragmaticprogrammer.com website). But the best part is that you don't need a sweeping mandate to change your whole team or your whole company. You don't need to adopt Extreme Programming or Test-Driven Development, or change your development process in order to reap the proven benefits of unit testing. You can start unit testing, the pragmatic way, right away.

Andrew Hunt和David Thomas是Pragmatic Programmers的閤夥人。他們不但為客戶開發復雜的軟件係統，而且為開發者和項目經理提供具有實務的各種資源。他們的第一本書《程序員修煉之道——從小工到專傢》（The Pragmatic Programmer:From jouneyman to master）是麵嚮技術和實踐的暢銷書籍，旨在讓編碼過程更加高效和有趣。